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The Relationship between Flowering Time of Rice and Weather Factors
Ben Jianmin,Mo Huidong,Hui Dafeng
1994, 8(2):
79-84 .
The daily peak flowering time (FT) of 4 indica and 3 japonica varieties was measured under 6 seeding dates. The relationship between FT and main weather factors, including temperature (TP), relative humidity (RH), hours of sunshine (HS) from a.m. to I p.m., wind strength (WS) and days after heading (DH) was explored. The results are as follows: l) Significant difference existed in FT between indica and japonica rice. A large variance of FT was detected in each of 7 varieties, of which 46%-66% could be explained by the variation of weather factors. 2) The influence of weather factors upon FT differed widely in indica and japonica. In indica, the main factors were TP, HS and WS in order of importance, and no real effect of RH was found. In japonica, however, RH had the same effect as TP for FT, and HS was less important. WS showed very limited influence and varied with varieties. 3) Two regression formulas that could exclude the variation from the weather factors were given.
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